Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 15 August 1893, Page 2

Foreign.

Hindoo - Mahometan riots have broken out in Bombay. The troops and police have been called out, and occupy the streets. Ma.iy of the rioters have been injured. The riot was coincident with a festival being celebrated, and spread over nearly the whole city, and is the most serious ever known. Artillery command the streets, and Lancers have been ordered from Poonah The blue jackets have been landed from the warships. Desultory skirmishes have taken place at night, and six persons have been killed and a hundred injured. Four Hindoo temples and two mosques were wrecked, and the Mohommedan quarters were looted. The Volunteers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to assist in maintaining order. Lord Harris, Governor of Bombay, has wired to the Viceroy that the riots will probably continue for some days, but declares that there is no ground for alarm. The Khedive and Riaz Pasha, the Premier, have quarelled, and a crisis is impending. The pilgrimage of the youthful Khedive to Stamboul occasions the I greatest anxiety to the British Foreign Office. It will cost him at least 500,000 francs in backaheesh, ' and between the Sultan, who pro-'

poses to marry his daughter to Abbas 11., and Ismail lasha, who is most anxious to take his grandson under his wing, a good many international troubles are likely to jMb^ hatched.